A man having sacrificed a young boar to the god hercules, to whom he owed performance of a vow made for the preservation of his health, ordered the remains of the barley to be set for the ass. But he refused to touch it, and said: "I would most willingly accept your food, if he who had been fed upon it had not had his throat cut."Warned by the significance of this fable, I have always been careful to avoid the gain that exposed to hazard. "But," Say you, "Those who have got riches by rapine, are still in possession of them." Come, then, let us enumerate those, who, being detected, have come to a bad end; you will find that those so punished constitute a great majority. 
Rashness brings luck to a few, misfortune to most. 